• Search
Skip to content
41 North Film Festival

Destination Cinema at Michigan Tech

ROZSA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

NOV. 6 - NOV. 9, 2025

  • ABOUT
    • About
    • Sponsors & Credits
  • FILMS
  • SCHEDULE
  • ATTEND
  • ARCHIVES
  • DONATE/VOLUNTEER

The Pearl Button (El boton de nacar)

Sunday, 10/25, Noon
September 30, 2015• byErin Smith

Comments are closed.

Patricio Guzmán, 2015

Director Patricio Guzmán ("Nostalgia for the Light," "The Battle of Chile," "Salvador Allende") offers a bold vision of the primal connection between mankind and water. The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

90 minutes (with English subtitles)

  • Search

Major sponsorship of the 41 North Film Festival is provided by the Department of Humanities, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, the College of Sciences and Arts, and the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts.

Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

VENUE

All events are free and open to the public. The festival will be held in the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts on the Michigan Tech campus, with additional films hosted by MTU Film Board in Fisher 135.

Find us on Instagram and Facebook

  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Contact

For more information about the festival, including how to become a festival sponsor or volunteer, please contact Erin Smith at ersmith@mtu.edu.

Visit the Archives to see festival programs from years past.

Copyright © 2025 41 North Film Festival
Close Search Window
↑